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Up to 2,300 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen have been killed during the anti-terrorist operation in Donbas, and another 273 remain unaccounted for, Oleksiy Nozdrachov, director of the Armed Forces' civilian-military cooperation department, has said.

“As of today, approximately 2,300 servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were confirmed killed,” he told a press conference in Kyiv on July 28.

Another 273 Ukrainian soldiers are listed as missing, he added.

“As our practice shows, out of 100 percent of missing people, some 40 percent may be held in captivity, and the remaining 60 percent are most likely to have been killed,” Nozdrachov said.

“Consequently, we believe that 70-80 servicemen are in captivity and, to our regret, the remaining 60 percent have been killed,” the colonel added.

For her part, Iryna Fedorchuk, director of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast administration’s department for interaction with law enforcement agencies, civil protection and defense efforts, told reporters that the Krasnopilske cemetery in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast contains 209 graves with remains of temporarily unidentified participants in the Donbas operation.

“We have 209 such graves. The unified DNA database has allowed us to establish the identities of 80 people. Of them, 72 perished people have already been reburied in other oblasts of Ukraine by the choice of their relatives,” Fedorchuk said in Kyiv on July 28.

The bureaucratic procedure for issuing reburial documents has been simplified as much as possible, she said.